Grab a girl here, today guest writer Bonnie Tringo will help us talk about which clauses,

and whether it's okay to start a sentence with one, or a new paragraph.

Sentences that are missing something, such as a subject or a predicate, are called incomplete

sentences or sentence fragments.

Although your English teachers probably scolded you for leaving out vital parts of sentences

when you were writing essays, you are allowed to use sentence fragments when you want to

make a point.

So you could perhaps say, I ate all the cookies, period, big mistake.

Here a big mistake is a sentence fragment, but it's okay because it allows you to

emphasize your point.

Which clauses that appear at the beginning of a sentence or paragraph are likewise incomplete

sentences, and you are allowed to use them occasionally.

Which clauses that stand around all by themselves appear in novels and magazines all the time,

you've probably come across only which clause.

What happens when you notice it, it definitely stood out and you paid attention.

Which clauses have traditionally modified noun phrases as in this example, I stepped

onto the train which had finally arrived.

Here, the which clause, which had finally arrived, describes the noun train.

If you wanted to highlight to your readers that the train was very late and you were annoyed,

you could use a which fragment.

Here we go.

I stepped onto the train, period, which had finally arrived.

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